You're monomaniacal on this. I'm glad you can stand firm on your pinnacle of moral virtue while I'm still working through this, but keep in mind that your answer for this issue seems to be sacrificing a suitable number of civilians if necessary to maintain our stainless image. And that with people who hated our guts long before we held any prisoners in Guantanamo, waterboarded anyone, or had any troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Malcolm Nance had some good points in that article, but his reasons 2 and 3 don't stand up well, especially 2. Our prisoners will be abused and killed regardless of how we treat theirs. They have been for decades. Our protests, on solid moral standing or not, have been and would be so much noise.

I'd like to maintain the high road as much as anyone, but I might be more realistic about the prices to be paid on BOTH sides of this issue than you are.